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Life was feeling a bit more normal. some of the special financial schemes set up for the pandemic, such as furlough and the £20 uplift universal credit, came to an end. to clear the backlog in the nhs, the government broke a promise in its manifesto and put up national insurance by 1.25%. some of the money would also go to fund social care. in order to deal with the problems of the nhs, the backlogs, you also have to fix social care. we are taking the tough decisions that the country wants to see. we are putting another £36 billion in. the plan for social care was the first attempt by a gove...

By £15 a month. with inflation, that's the rising collective costs of what we spend on at 5%, you will be in the minority if your salary or pension is keeping up. the big one to brace yourselves for is a hike in utility bills. the price cap that limits default tariffs will be changed, with a warning it could go up as much as 50%, taking the average gas and electric bill to more than £2,000 a year. that's putting pressure on the government who yesterday met with businesses to see what can be done to help families. will they get rid of the 5% vat on domestic energy use? maybe, although that wo...

If you look at our energy bills in april, those energy bills could go up april, those energy bills could go up as high as 50% on what we are paying now, and that could push up inflation to 7%, which is way above the bank of england target of 2%, we are talking about three times that target, so they have to do something drastic to get eight to 2% again. and also people think long term inflation could be here to stay, it may ease off but to be around the 4% level, more than the target. interest rates at the moment are pretty low, 0.2%, we are all expecting a rate rise in february, perhaps 0.5%, ...

That the government should do some things to improve the situation for those on the modest means, for example, the warm homes discount could be extended, etc. but then you've got the impact of something the government's doing quite deliberately, which is to raise taxes, national insurance going up by 1.25 percentage points for everybody who is working, at the same time as the thresholds below which you don't pay the higher rate of tax are being frozen, so that will drag more people into the higher rates of tax and national insurance, and they calculate that for the average family, that will be...

Hearing on insulins, they just do that for an up or down vote. no, they won't. they can't afford it. what if the next thing you do is you take mit romney at his words, oh, you want $11.25 cents minimum wage in march. let's have hearings on that. there will be 10 republican senators that'll have to vote for $11.25 cents minimum wage. take joe manchin of his words. okay, you say you are for universal pre-k? okay, we'll put it in the recreational bill. it will be an extraordinary entitlement around for the next few years. they're talking about chopping it up and do what bill clinton did to us. gi...